In British planning law, the term safeguarding refers to provisions that protects future infrastructure projects such as roads, railways, utilities and other infrastructure projects from conflicting development.
[3][4] Safeguarding of a particular project does not guarantee that the infrastructure will be built in future, and does not allow for compulsory purchase of land or the power to start construction.
Those permissions have to be obtained through other legal processes, such as a Transport and Works Act Order or a hybrid bill.
[2] Examples of projects that have been safeguarded include Crossrail 2,[4] the Bakerloo line extension[2][5] and High Speed 2.
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